Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint and Ypsilanti Voters...

Lots potential new marijuana laws to be voted on across the country on Tuesday, here's whats on the table in Michigan...


MICHIGAN: Voters in four cities - totaling over a million people - will also decide on Tuesday whether to legalize or depenalize the adult use of cannabis. Voters in Detroit will decide on Proposal M, which removes criminal penalties pertaining to the possession on private property of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults over age 21. In Flint, voters will decide on a citizens' initiative to amend the city code so that the possession on private property of up to one ounce of marijuana or cannabis paraphernalia by those age 19 or older is no longer a criminal offense. Grand Rapids voters will act on Proposal 2, which seeks to allow local law enforcement the discretion to ticket first-time marijuana offenders with a civil citation, punishable by a $25 fine and no criminal record. In Ypsilanti, voters will decide on a proposal to make the local enforcement of marijuana possession offenses the city's lowest law enforcement priority.

Full article http://norml.org/news/2012/11/01/six-states-to-decide-on-marijuana-measures-on-election-day

I never understood how plans to decriminalize always end up with citations and fines. There shouldn't be any. First time offenders? The word offender shouldn't even be used. I don't get it.

Well as a resident of mich I'll def take any break on the laws. Yes while it is uncanny why u use the word offender, it's still allowing the law to have some regulations over the people. I look at it as evolution of cannabis. For all u evolution guys out there it didn't happen over night. Just to have the laws change at all toward the better i feel is great progress.

It's the man's thumb, still pressing down. If he let's up, he has to act like he did you a favor. Something about job security for ignoramuses.

Its a step in the right direction. Rather see this step then no steps at all!

wonder how many ppl have a record now since they started the mmmj program? some with only a traffic ticket prior. we have no choice but to take the bad with the good, two steps forward and one back... hopefully huh?

animal trainers always have peanuts in their pockets to appease the elephants.

J|W said:

Its a step in the right direction. Rather see this step then no steps at all!

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That's how I feel. We're no where near the end but things like this are a big step in the right direction. A few more years of this kind of progress and we might get a shot at actual legalization like Colorado is trying to do.

GR will get the vote.

I gotta believe Flint will get the vote as well.